belletristic

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Soon after Denis Dutton, a professor of the philosophy of art at a New Zealand university, founded the Web site Arts & Letters Daily in 1998, it became known as the Internet's most reliable source of the type of writing to which the Web is intrinsically hostile-belletristic essays, philosophical and scientific speculations, discussion of the latest book on Henry James or Albert Einstein.

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  • Soon after Denis Dutton, a professor of the philosophy of art at a New Zealand university, founded the Web site Arts & Letters Daily in 1998, it became known as the Internet's most reliable source of the type of writing to which the Web is intrinsically hostile-belletristic essays, philosophical and scientific speculations, discussion of the latest book on Henry James or Albert Einstein. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • In belletristic literature, also, we find occasional references to the love-sentiment in childhood. —  The Sexual Life of the Child
  • Literature, belletristic, love in, 12 erotic, love in, 13 of the sexual life of the child, 7-16 —  The Sexual Life of the Child
  • _See_ First love in belletristic literature, 12 in young children, 188, 189 —  The Sexual Life of the Child
  • One thing is an established fact: up to the close of the eighteenth century America had no belletristic literature. " —  A Book of Prefaces
 

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